“As a maker of images and narratives, the stories and situations that populate and reside within my work are directly extended from memory and my own sense of self in relation to place. There lies a nostalgic undertone that is, at times, compromised by a sense of threat – a culmination of sentiment and reality. Existing commonalities are the figure in space, an allegorical use of motifs, and a lyrical approach to the narrative, while maintaining a sense of the autobiographical through a blend of the observational and experiential. There is an ambiguous quality to the work that I am keen for the observer to engage with and interpret. My connection with the rural south-west of Scotland has become a focal point within the narratives that unfold. Observations of place become charged by memory in relation to the landscape or space and then disrupted by the imposition of a subtle threat or an unsettling factor. There is a twofold attitude towards rural life, one being that of sentimentality, and the other being that of danger, the fine line between sinister and humour that can be found in a 1970’s Public Information Film. If the work can be approached as a collection of scenarios then the onlooker may encounter relationships and make links between the works as they shift through night and day, summer and winter, on a spiritual journey of self and place.”
